Savić Marković Štedimlija

Savić Marković Štedimlija (13 January 1906, Stijena – 25 January 1971, Zagreb) was a controversial Montenegrin writer and publicist in interwar Yugoslavia and the Independent State of Croatia, well-known for historiographical publications which based on ideas and theories of radical Croatian nationalism .

Savić Marković Štedimlija was born in Stijena, a small village of Piperi Highland near to Podgorica in the Principality of Montenegro. He attended the Gymnasium in Leskovac and moved to Zagreb in 1930. There he worked as a journalist and writer who published numerous articles and reviews on literature, politics and history in newspapers and periodicals. Štedimlija’s articles on Montenegrin history complained about lost independence of the Kingdom of Montenegro after Podgorica Assembly in 1918, and his articles on domestic policy of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia were influenced by Croatian nationalism of that time.